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Economically important Insect Orders z Insect Feeding Guilds z Characteristics and examples of economically important insects Teaching Objective: z Sight recognition of insect orders z Laboratory exercise to follow Insect Feeding Guilds z What is a feeding guild? A guild describes where an insect must go to find, eat, and process food. A guild sets the stage for understanding ecological relationships. Individual orders can have insects in one or many feeding guilds. Insect Guild Categories z Pest z Bugs that bother us z Beneficial z Bugs that help us 1 Insect Pest Guilds z Insects that discolor or disfigure leaves (spider mite, plant bug). z Producers of liquid excrement (honeydew), or wax (aphid, scales) z Gall makers - Live in specialized habitats (tumors) produced by plants. z Defoliators – Remove leaf tissue z Leaf miners – Live between the upper and lower surface of plants. z Stem and trunk borers. –Live inside plant stems and trunks. z Root feeders –feed in the soil on plant roots. z Disease vectors– Transmit disease (Mosquitoes Malaria, elm bark beetles- Dutch Elm Disease) Beneficial Insect Guilds z Insects that eat pests z Parasites- Insects complete their life inside a pests ( parasitic wasp) z Predators – Insects that consume other insects (lady beetles) z Pollinators – Insects that move pollen between plants (wasps, bees and flies) z Decomposers - Insects that feed on dead and decaying plant and animal matter. (Carpenter Ants, Termites, Bark lice, Collembolla, flies). Insect Phylogeny Ametabolous Apterygota Hemimetabolous Exopterygota z Paleoptera (ancient winged) z Neoptera (newer winged) z Orthopteroid orders -Chewers • Hemipteroid orders –Mostly suckers Holometabolous Endopterygota 2 Ametabolous apterygota Collembola (Springtails) collophore furcula Collembola Image Collembola Furcula 3 Collembola Head Retracted chewing mouth parts Thysanura (Silverfish/Firebrats) Hemimetabolous Exopterygota Paleoptera (old winged) Ephemeroptera (Mayflies) Adult Naiads (Aquatic juveniles) 4 Hemimetabolous Exopterygota Paleoptera (old winged) Ephemeroptera (Mayflies) Adult Odonata Anisoptera (dragonflies) Zygoptera (damselflies) Odonata Anisoptera (dragonflies) Zygoptera (damselflies) 5 Hemimetabolous Exopterygota Neoptera (new wing) Aquatic ancestral group z Plecoptera (stone flies)* z Embioptera (web spinners) *= commonly encountered or problematic in ornamental systems. Plecoptera (stoneflies) Adult Naiad Plecoptera (stoneflies) Adult Naiad 6 Hemimetabolous Exopterygota Neoptera (new wing) Orthopteroid Orders • Dermaptera* (earwigs) • Grylloblatodea (rock crawlers) • Phasmotodea* (walking sticks) • Orthoptera* (grasshoppers, crickets and katydids) Dictyopterous (produce eggs in cases, like mantids and cockroaches) z • Mantodea* (Mantids) z • Blattodea* (Cockroaches) z • Isoptera* (Termites) *= commonly encountered or problematic in ornamental systems. Dermaptera (Earwigs) Enlarged cerci Phasmatodea (Walking Sticks) female male antennae Forelegs 7 Orthoptera (grasshoppers, katydids, crickets, mole crickets) Orthopteroid Orders Dictyopterous (produce eggs in cases), • Mantodea* (Mantids) • Blattodea* (Cockroaches) • Isoptera* (Termites) Blattodea (Cockroaches) German cockroach life stages 8 Blattodea (Cockroaches) common adults Blattodea (Cockroaches) common egg cases Mantodea (Praying Mantids) 9 Isoptera (Termites) soldier worker Mud tubes Winged reproductives 10.

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